You always read stories of people going out to California and making it as an actor with, like, two dollars, so I figured I'd try it.

When I read for 'Girls,' I was like, 'The script says 'Handsome Carpenter,' so someone else is going to get the part. They'll have someone handsome, not me.'

I'm not an acting monk or anything. I'm not, like, the most well-adjusted actor.

When you get out of the Marine Corps, you feel like you can do anything.

It was very clear to me I wanted to be an actor when I got out into civilian life.

With 'Girls'... I feel like there's an impulse to try to make it look better or neater or more perfect, and when I watch theater, television, movies, it's always the imperfection I'm always more attracted to.